Extract only propositions that the source itself commits to....

Prompt

Extract only propositions that the source itself commits to. Do not turn beliefs, hypotheses, conditions, or possibilities into actual-world facts. SOURCE: Although some scholars have suggested that population pressure caused the conflict, the available evidence shows only that population increased during the century before the conflict. If resources also became scarcer, competition may have intensified. Return a JSON array containing one object per proposition: {"proposition": "...", "status": "asserted|attributed|conditional|possible"}